Certified Dumbass

[23][She/her] 😺😺 [Do not interact if you're a map, 'no'map, trans/homophobic, support any sort of fascism, or are just a garbage person.]

[aliennachos]

Just gonna put these here for later use...

[pangur-and-grim]

in my minecraft server there's a 1/5000 chance of a skeleton running across your screen at any given moment, and sometimes it really scares me

[zedogica]

[pangur-and-grim]

it's all I need

[cg-blight]

obligatory 1 drawing per year

no energy to render them properly, so it's like 70-75% percent done + lots of photoshop tinkering which may have ruined the values but idc anymore i just want a phone wallpaper y'know? it kind of looks odd from the side (Alexander just staring xd) but i like how it looks on the screen, i mean it's my screen -- don't look at it from the side, it's impolite

[infernalparadestims]

Alex Mercer stimboard with gifs of the character + black, white, and red themes.

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[skyepatridge]

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

[pancakeke]

clickable link for mobile users: paywallreader.com

[marinella-ela]

[balaclava-trismegistus]

i love love love when artists put a bunch of effort into like human anatomy and facial features and light rendering and drawing fabric folds and shadows and texture and then when they draw a gun they do this

[bloodofgrapes]

Do you hate drawing firearms? Let me introduce my good friend 3d Warehouse to you! There's a pretty good database of 3d models that you can rotate and play with in real time, no program download required! I've seen all sorts of real world firearms, as well as fictional guns from popular video games and other media

Don't ever be afraid to trace guns--it's not art theft or stealing, it's saving yourself an enormous amount of time for the exact same end result. Additionally, if you're unsure of what firearms to draw, the Internet Movie Firearms Database has a collection of basically all firearms used in any media ever, from anime to film to video games and everything in between

[fallout-lou-begas]

And of course if you can't trace a gun directly then this website is still perfect for getting a reference photo of the exact right gun from the exact right angle!

[aletheyass]

why has ‘this looks like a renaissance painting’ become such a common phrase on the internet to describe momentous, dramatically lit images that are brimming with pathos when the word they mean to say is ‘baroque’

[hotarukuro]

hope it’s more clear

[omagpies]

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[strange-aeons]

you lied to us you said it was two hours but its two hours and six minutes this is unforgivable

oops <3

[mysillycomics]

I contributed my DashCon story to this video!!! If you want a comprehensive and extensive telling of the events of DashCon, with accounts of the people who were actually there, I HIGHLY recommend it.

[starlit-mansion]

listen. i honestly do try my best to not be bitchy about stuff. but if you not-joking-joked that you wanted to watch a video essay from hbomb on the kendrick-drake rap beef. i think that you are obligated to watch fd signifier's 3 hour video essay. i KNOW the watch time is not the issue.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

[grammarpedant]

I spent three and a half hours utterly immersed in a beef I was barely aware of from a scene I am not part of. This is a video about rap artists, of course, but also if you like hearing about scene drama, art history, Black culture, or if you just enjoy watching video essays, you gotta watch this video. F.D. Signifier is not playing around- this is documentary-level production covering decades of what rap means through the lens of a conflict between prominent artists, presented in a way that's both informative and engaging for a newcomer AND also deeply incisive and analytical for the seasoned rap purist. And aside from teaching me a fuckton about hip hop, this video also just made me feel excited about and open to nonfiction media once again.

Cannot overstate how HIGHLY I recommend this video essay.

[dashcon-two]

Prepare yourself.

[alcedeerie]

[beewulf]

no offense but if i exit out of a program that program should close. none of that running in the background shit.

[soratayuya]

If you kill something it had better be dead

[confusedcuttlefish]

[polyphonetic]

Not only was she fucked into oblivion, but morrowind and skyrim too

[skipppppy]

Fuck it. So many of you asked for this so I’m delivering. English Willy part 2. Enjoy

(part 1)

[guerrillatech]

[heartseeker]

i do im celebrating my dogs birthday

shes turning 2

[awbrainno]

I’m also celebrating your dogs birthday

[storms-and-illness]

celebrating tumblr user heartseeker’s dog’s birthday on the fourth everyone

[achronalart]

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

[mydonkeyfeet]

Art conservator here! I did part of my master's degree on Perkin's mauve dye (which he named mauveine) and it's a violet purple, not quite so magenta as that first dress pic. I got to do chemical analysis on an actual 1856 sample of the dye! And the sample I dissolved and painted out on paper most resembled Pantone 266, which apparently translates to hex #7329b0. Mauveine is significant because it was THE FIRST synthetic dye ever made.

And it was actually quite fade-resistant! Much moreso than natural dyes. People in the 1920s would have known about their grandmothers' super bright colors, because those dresses were still folded up in the attic or still in scraps in patchwork quilts, and their grannies were right there to tell them (just like my 2020s niece recently tried on some 1960s dresses that belongd to my mom). And the word magenta has kept its meaning, even though it was also an aniline dye of the same era (and might be the dye in that first dress, aka fuchsine). So I don't know why the word mauve came to mean a muddy pale color, but I don't think it's because later generations were ignorant about historic dye colors. Apparently the color name "mauve taupe" was first used in 1925 for a muddy purple, so maybe that was the start of the shift.

PS, mauve is named for the French word for the mallow flower (probably this one, Malva sylvestris). I love it.

[mydonkeyfeet]

PS! (Sorry-not-sorry, I just really love mauveine history), read more about Perkin's mauve here! And look at this dress dyed with mauveine. Gorgeous! I can barely imagine how amazing that time must have been, to see previously unattainable brilliant flower colors on fabric. We're so used to having fabric in absolutely any color we want, but there just wasn't any purple dye like that ever before.

PPS (SORRY AGAIN!) I was curious about that first dress, and I searched around and found that it was listed on another tumblr as being mauveine, but that was incorrect. The dress lives at the V&A and they describe it as being a magenta dye, but they don't identify which dye. But also, the first picture posted here appears to have been color enhanced compared to the V&A's photos. Go and look, it's gorgeous.

[achronalart]

Thank you so much! for your additions to my old semi-informed post that for no reasons I can discern (I am a tiny account) went viral.

This is a fascinating addition that gives it way more context. I wish I had known it when I made the OP, especially given the views it's been getting.

Now I wonder if people in the 1920s thought mauve was that washed out grey-violet because of the fugitive nature of printer's inks?

Or maybe it was just one of those things.

Anyway, thank you so much. This is really interesting!

[mydonkeyfeet]

Hi again OP! By the mid-late 19th century, most printer's inks were just as stable as fabric dyes, or even moreso. Some were also aniline dyes like the ones used in fabric. Maybe someone in fashion started hyping a muddy purple as the cool new mauve and soon everyone was talking about it, like how "millennial pink" got invented. I think more fashion/design history research is needed, which is not my forte.